But it also wants to preserve stability in the region and has tired of its bellicose neighbor's repeated defiance of warnings to
stop its missile tests.
Not exact matches
North Korea had already made some concessions ahead of the summit, including a declaration that it would
stop missile and nuclear
tests and drop its previous demands for US troops to withdraw from the peninsula.
It's certainly a difficult situation for China because their preference would be for North Korea to cool down and
stop testing missiles and enter into some kind of negotiation track with the US, but it just doesn't appear that the North Koreans are prepared to do that.
Although it had been widely expected that suspending North Korea's nuclear and
missile tests would be a first step to be discussed in the Trump - Kim meeting, the North Korean leader proactively announced before the inter-Korean summit that he will immediately
stop nuclear
tests and launches of inter-continental ballistic
missiles.
When
testing our
missile defenses against attack by North Korea or Iran, it is vital that we
stop scripting those
tests to succeed; we need to have real life situations, including enemy decoys, so that we can know what needs to be fixed.
«From 21 April, North Korea will
stop nuclear
tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic
missiles,» the country's state news agency said.